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Author Clarke, George Elliott, author

Title Odysseys home : mapping African-Canadian literature / George Elliott Clarke
Published Toronto [Ontario] ; Buffalo [New York] : University of Toronto Press, [2002]
Ottawa, Ontario : Canadian Electronic Library, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 491 pages)
Contents Contesting a model blackness: a meditation on African-Canadian African Americanism, or the structures of African-Canadianité -- Must all blackness be America? Locating Canada in Borden's 'Tightrope time, ' or nationalizing Gilroy's The black Atlantic -- The career of black English in Nova Scotia: a literary sketch -- The birth and rebirth of Africadian literature -- Syl Cheney-Coker's Nova Scotia, or the limits of pan-Africanism -- Toward a conservative modernity: cultural nationalism in contemporary Acadian and Africadian poetry -- Liberalism and its discontents: reading black and white in contemporary Québécois texts -- Treason of the black intellectuals? -- Canadian biraciality and its 'zebra' poetics -- Clarke versus Clarke: Tory elitism in Austin Clarke's short fiction -- Harris, Philip, Brand: three authors in search of literate criticism -- No language is neutral: seizing English for ourselves -- The complex face of black Canada -- Viewing African Canada -- The death and rebirth of Africadian nationalism -- An unprejudiced view of two Africadian poets -- Reading Ward's "Blind man's blues' -- African-islanders -- Another great thing -- Growing up black in Alberta -- Toward a black women's Canadian history -- Love which is insight -- The outraged citizen-poet speaks out -- A primer of African-Canadian literature -- Africana Canadiana: a select bibliography of literature by African-Canadian authors, 1785-2001, in English, French, and translation
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-475) and index
Subject Canadian literature -- Black authors -- History and criticism
French-Canadian literature -- Black authors -- History and criticism
Canadian literature -- Black authors -- Bibliography
Africans -- Canada -- Intellectual life
Black people -- Canada -- Intellectual life
Africans in literature.
Black people in literature
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Canadian.
Canadian literature -- Black authors
Black people -- Intellectual life
Black people in literature
Africans -- Intellectual life
Africans in literature
Canada
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliographies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781442659865
1442659866
Other Titles Mapping African-Canadian literature